Ramsa WM-S1E, 2E, 5E and 10E Mics

Dr Simon Bateson delivers a fair and detailed report on a rather unusual range of microphones.

If your sequencing efforts are constantly blighted by cassette data storage problems and you long for the convenience of disk storage, then Korg's latest budget sequencer cum MIDI data recorder might be for you. Tony Wride investigates.

Conclusion

The Teac 80-8 tape machine, Tascam Model 5 mixer and dbx DX-8 noise-reduction unit: last month we examined them individually, this month we look at them in combination.

Soundcraft Spirit Automated Mixer

A unique E&MM design which allows interfacing between all commercially available synthesisers, sequencers and micros.

Adam Asiz

A step-by-step guide to wiring phono connectors.

Software for IBM PC and Atari ST

Music transcription comes to Atari ST and IBM PC computers with this new program. Chris Many finds out if it does a better job than the human hand.

The cassette 4-track is still the focal point of the home studio, and Marantz have produced a serious challenger to the familiar Portastudio. How does it measure up? How will musicians’ take to it? How does Nicholas Rowland do it?

Nigel Jopson fields Zinovieff's rotten eggs.

Acoustic Drums 2

To continue the saga of recording acoustic drums, this month we look at ways of treating the recorded sound.

DIN Connectors

news from the front

after the break, news from the front

Solo Sound

David Etheridge pays a visit to this expanding 8-track London facility which has carved out a successful niche for itself as a well-equipped modern day songwriter's studio.

Focusrite Red 2

Thoroughbred EQ

From penthouse to pavement and back again, Heaven 17 have seen pop finance from both sides. Will their latest album, Pleasure 1, put them back in the black? Tony Reed opens the account...

Power amp giant test

Austin Armstrong, BSS, C-Audio, MHA Chameleon, and RCF battle it out

Part 5. The adventure continues - the master of MIDI manipulations, Martin Russ, does the time warp!

Multireviews.

How to record a cheap live album — an easy way out with direction courtesy Richard Elen.

SMPTE Sync/MIDI + Audio Patchbay/Mac Interface

Combining MIDI and audio patchbay functions and putting them under software control could be an important studio breakthrough. Ian Waugh looks at the SMP16 and studio sophistication.

C-Lab Notator/Creator V3.1

The latest update to C-Lab's Creator/Notator adds graphic arranging, support for tape recorder transport control, and a host of other assorted new or improved features. If you still haven't upgraded from a pre-3.0 version, now's the time to do it, says Dave Lockwood.

Oasis On Stage

(But Were Too Afraid To Ask!)

PART 2: Martin Russ reveals even more about the uses and applications of MIDI's most powerful function.